After researching and refining the history of Wisconsin art for decades, the Museum of Wisconsin Art will be able to tell more of its story starting this weekend. It will reopen in a dramatic new building nestled on the Milwaukee River at 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend - a gleaming, white wedge with twice the space for art inside.

The museum also is altering its narrative, opening up what it means to focus on "Wisconsin art" and creating a greater focus on contemporary art. | March 31, 2013»Read Full Article

Journal Communications employees received the following memo Monday, on the 33rd day of the blackout of Journal Broadcast Group stations, including WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), on Time Warner Cable.

The dispute between them is over fees the cable service pays to carry a stations' programming. Time Warner is in a similar dispute with CBS-owned stations, whose settlement will set the standard for the future, said the Hollywood Reporter. | Aug. 26, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(23)

Eric Jon Mahlum (from left), Rob Tucker and Andrew M. McMath in Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of "I Left My Heart: A Salute To The Music Of Tony Bennett."

If you attend "I Left My Heart," the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's season-opening Tony Bennett revue, you won't hear a word about the man who helped liberate a concentrate camp, marched with Martin Luther King Jr. at Selma and became an outspoken opponent of the American invasion of Iraq. Nor will you hear about Bennett's two divorces or former drug addiction.

As the subtitle to the Rep's revue indicates, what co-writers David Grapes and Todd Olson (who also directs) have created is a "salute to the music of Tony Bennett," with an emphasis on the music. | Aug. 26, 2013»Read Full Article(1)

The full-scale Beach Boys reunion may have been a short-lived occassion, but Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson is still keeping part of the old band together--and roping in a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

Well, at least I'll be able to say, "There was that time Art City was on the radio -- once."

Last Friday at noon, we premiered our first episode of Art City on WMSE. We jumped on a newsy subject, a story on "art circles" in the Shepherd Express by James Carlson. In talking about the who-knows-who interactive graphic that attempts to map our local art community, I was joined by Jennifer Johung, a contemporary art and architecture historian and Debra Brehmer, the owner of the Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee. | Aug. 26, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(4)

They're coming (judging from the roar outside, some are already here), but before Milwaukee's a sea of orange and black for the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary bash later this week, there's still plenty to do arouund town.

Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is back in town, for an 8 p.m. show with the Combo at the Pabst Theater. TIckets are $37.50. | Aug. 26, 2013»Read Full Blog Post